Eyes Like Yours

You enter. My heart breaks. 

"Why do you want to learn English?” To move to America, or Britain, to work in my field of interest; politics, tourism, journalism, science, linguistics, and watch shows and movies in English.   Today I met a French man who has one wife, one pet goose named “Trumpet”, and no children, who has never been outside of France, as he is petrified of flying.   “Why do you want to learn English?” Because I have been sick for two years. Pour passer le temps. To pass the time.

She’s asleep by 11 pm every night (which prevents under eye circles) instead of sitting in the kitchen all night with her dad talking about ‘80s music and Area 51 and what happens when we die.   There is another me somewhere in a parallel universe. I think about her sometimes. I wonder what her poetry is like.